At the Transucrein port terminal in Izmail, Solagro has implemented a fully automated process for receiving agricultural products for the first time with the participation of just one operator. Six vehicles were received in an hour and a half, which is 150 tons of grain. All stages, from queue management and receiving consignment notes via a chat bot to weighing, sampling and line control, were carried out remotely.
The operator combined several roles at once: dispatcher, weigher, sampler and process line operator. One laboratory assistant was also present, however, as the company notes, technologies for fully automating grain analysis already exist. In total, only three people were on the premises of the enterprise at the time of unloading: an operator, a laboratory assistant and a security guard.
According to the director of Solagro, this model was implemented thanks to 42 video cameras without “blind spots”, an automated system for receiving and shipping, as well as software integrated with quantitative and qualitative accounting systems. For now, only individual operations remain manual: opening the hatches of wagons, cleaning warehouses and repairing equipment.